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Portrait of Sir Walter Scott

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in 1822 having rediscovered the Crown Jewels of Scotland four years earlier. Lawrence depicts him as an author holding a pen in his right hand with writing material on the
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Walter Scott was Britain's most famous living writer when he was depicted. At the height of his career with his
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162 cm × 133 cm (63.6 in × 52.3 in)
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Lawrence's painting may have originally been intended to hang at
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of the artist for whom he supplied various paintings for the
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to his left. It was acclaimed by the reviewer in the
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Paintings in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom
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This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a
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Thomas Lawrence
Oil on canvas
Royal Collection
portrait painting
Thomas Lawrence
Sir Walter Scott
Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition
Regency era
George IV
patron
Waterloo Chamber
guineas
Waverley novels
romantic
Ivanhoe
Rob Roy
antiquarian
George IV's Visit to Scotland
desk
Morning Post
Carlton House
Royal Collection
mezzotint
National Portrait Gallery
Henry Raeburn
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